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For comparability’s sake, let’s really measure outcomes

Designing meaningful, appropriate and comparable impact investment performance instruments that do not stop at outputs, but get all the way to outcomes, was never going to be easy. But it is not impossible.

Supporting Cocoa Farmers

Microfinance Results Depend A Lot On Where Borrowers Live

A recent study of microfinance borrowers shows that, on the whole, their loans led to improvements in their standard of living. But the impact also depended on the region and country those people inhabit.

How Organizations Measure the Real Impact of Social Enterprise Programs

Professional, financial, and personal growth were the top three positive outcomes for beneficiaries who participated in workforce development programs.

ALIVE Ventures and 60dB listen to parents & teachers to study the impact of school electrification Colombia

Electricity generation can not just benefit previously off-grid schools, but the overall communities they are a part of.

This Is Not an Impact Performance Report

Impact investing needs more than just “evidence” of impact; we need continuous “impact performance” data that is dynamic, fluid, and iterated upon.

ESG Investing Needs to Expand Its Definition of Materiality

What will it take to put a real S in ESG?

The Power of Lean Data

For years, the complex and costly nature of impact measurement has kept many social enterprises from doing it—or from doing it well. But a series of recent projects that incorporate lean design principles show that it’s possible to gather high-quality impact data quickly and inexpensively.

At the Heart of Impact Measurement, Listening to Customers

Investors looking for data on social impact should start by helping investees deliver a compelling value proposition.

With crisis, income of microentrepreneurs falls to value close to the minimum wage

Since the coronavirus pandemic, the income of micro-entrepreneurs in Brazil has dropped to a value close to minimum wage.

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For comparability’s sake, let’s really measure outcomes

Supporting Cocoa Farmers

Microfinance Results Depend A Lot On Where Borrowers Live

How Organizations Measure the Real Impact of Social Enterprise Programs

ALIVE Ventures and 60dB listen to parents & teachers to study the impact of school electrification Colombia

This Is Not an Impact Performance Report

ESG Investing Needs to Expand Its Definition of Materiality

The Power of Lean Data

At the Heart of Impact Measurement, Listening to Customers

With crisis, income of microentrepreneurs falls to value close to the minimum wage

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